On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > is there any reason the packet is dropped and "NETDEV_TX_OK" is returned, > in this case? > Seems pretty stupid to me, because now we are randomly dropping > packets before kernel queuing (qdisc etc) can handle them, > or am I missing something? Yes, there is a good reason (there are no buffers for the hardware to play with). Actually mac80211 tx is never supposed to return anything but TX_OK. Try this patch (it needs work which is why it's not upstream yet): http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/56785/ -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
